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JOSEPH SAMET: Welcome back. Hope you enjoyed your lunch. Delighted to introduce, to my left, Kathryn Katie Coleman, a partner in Hughes, Hubbard, and Reed's New York office.
Katie's been involved in a wide range of chapter 11 and related cases over the years for various parties and interests. She's also been involved with clients defending rights, trade secret theft, and RICO lawsuits. She has been involved for lenders, is trusted advisor for various ...

From the program: Bankruptcy & Reorganizations 2017: Current Developments

Released on: May. 3, 2017

Staying abreast of the current developments in restructuring, bankruptcy and reorganizations is essential, and this advanced conference assembles a remarkable faculty of bankruptcy judges and leading practitioners who will provide you with a thorough review and analysis of hot topics and recent decisions in diverse industries, including in energy. They will cover the Supreme Court’s decisions of Wellness Int’l, Stern v. Marshall and ...

Taken from the Web Program Asset Based Financing Strategies 2017 recorded February, 2017 in New York.
Bankruptcy [01:00:50]
The automatic stay
Adequate protection issues
Trustee’s avidance powers
Cram down
Speakers: Rachel Jaffe Mauceri, Peter Montoni, Edwin E. Smith
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An Overview of the ...

EDWIN E. SMITH: Welcome back. I do want to remind everyone to fill out their valuations. Every year, we look at these. And we figure out who to keep on the panel and who to throw off. So we'd be grateful for your input. We're going to start talking a little bit about bankruptcy for asset-based lenders. We're going to talk about the automatic stay and relief from the automatic stay, adequate protection, use of cash collateral, post-petition security ...

SPEAKER: Hello and welcome back. We will now have a session on IP issues and bankruptcy from a real expert in the area. Lillian Stenfeldt is partner and chair of the bankruptcy department at the Sedgwick firm. She works on complex intellectual property issues and bankruptcy cases and represents international technology and other clients on the various aspects of licensing and bankruptcy law. Lillian frequently advises clients on purchasing IP assets ...

Taken from the Web Program Understanding the Intellectual Property License 2016 recorded December, 2016 in San Francisco.
Bankruptcy Issues in Licensing [01:02:30]
Treatment of IP and IP licenses under bankruptcy law
Consequences of your licensor, or licensee, going bankrupt
Structuring IP transactions to take into account bankruptcy risk
Negotiating tips to address the bankruptcy contingency
Preserving IP rights ...

Businesses in financial distress are not an unusual sight these days, and as a result, it is essential for attorneys of all levels and in all practice areas to become familiar with the fundamental tenets of bankruptcy law. Whether you are just starting out in your career, thinking about broadening your practice area to include this field, or want to be able to spot the issues when advising your clients, this program will provide you with an essential ...

JOSEPH SAMET: Thank you. Everything you want to know about international insolvency will be covered in the next 57 minutes. And joining Judge Gropper on this is Lisa Schweitzer. Lisa's practice at Cleary Gottlieb focuses on financial restructuring, bankruptcy reorganizations, international work. She has extensive work in cases including being a lead US counsel in Nortel Networks and Affiliates in the Chapter 11 case and asset sales and the like.
Lisa's ...

JOSEPH SAMET: Welcome back. It's 11:30, now, Eastern. And-- delighted to introduce, to my left, Michael Cook. Mike, of Schulte Roth & Zabel, has been involved in business reorganization, creditors'-rights litigation, mediation, and arbitration, mainstream bankruptcy and reorganizations for the last several decades. Mike has been involved in a whole range of major cases, has taught extensively, not only for PLI and other organizations but also at NYU, ...

MARTIN BIENENSTOCK: OK, the final method we're going to talk about to avoid the bankruptcy codes priority scheme was the subject of a Supreme Court decision that came down, probably no more than six weeks ago or something like that, and Judge Gropper is going to address Jevic.
ALLAN GROPPER: Right. The Jevic, and I may get the names right, in the Supreme Court, it was Czyzewski against Jevic Holding Corp. Unpronounceable, but a easily digestible ...

JOSEPH SAMET: Welcome back. We're going to continue on with the subject of the update on executory contracts, license arrangements, and the like.
Brian Hermann, who has done this program for a good number of years, is the Deputy Chair of the Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization Department at Paul Weiss, and has been involved extensively in a wide range of chapter 11 matters, pre-bankruptcy matters. Recent engagements include the Ad Hoc Committee ...

From the program: Fashion and Retail Law 2017: Trends and Developments

Recorded on: May. 4, 2017

Taken from the Web Program Fashion and Retail Law 2017: Trends and Developments recorded May, 2017 in New York.
Restructuring and Refinancing Brands and Businesses [01:00:19]
The restructuring landscape
Financing techniques
Key legal issues
Lessons from retail bankruptcies
Speaker: David J. Mack, Janet M. Weiss
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AMY TAUB: It is now my pleasure to turn this briefing over to Leonard Goldberger.
LEONARD P. GOLDBERGER: Thank you, Amy. And good afternoon or morning to wherever you are. I'm Lenny Goldberger and I'd like to thank PLI for the privilege of speaking to you today and everybody who signed up for joining me. I must confess, preparing for this was a little frustrating and that's because there is so much good stuff here that trying to cram it all into ...

Taken from the briefing Growing Trend of Chinese Investments in Financially-Distressed U.S. Businesses and Assets recorded March, 2017 in New York.
According to a recent report by Rhodium Group, there was over $46 billion of Chinese foreign direct investment into the U.S. in 2016 alone. This has pushed the total cumulative Chinese investment in the U.S. since 2000 to over $100 billion. This wave has been spread around the country; and Chinese owned ...

JOSEPH SAMET: OK. Well, welcome back for the home stretch. We're rounding third base and we're approaching home.
So for the last hour, we have two important areas-- actually, three important areas-- to cover. One is setoffs, and setoffs and cross-affiliate setoffs, triangular setoffs. The second area has to do with the restructuring plan and more detail about the process going into the pre-managed but not necessarily fully prepackaged plan. In fact, ...

From the program: Recent Developments in Distressed Debt, Restructurings and Workouts 2017

Released on: Feb. 11, 2017

Effective risk prevention practice, a volatile stock market, weak economic recovery from the recession and occasional fraud require businesses to preplan and limit risk with distressed companies. The program will cover current issues relating to structuring, drafting and enforcing the rights of creditors and parties to loans, various executory contracts and inter-creditor agreements, principally in out-of-court restructurings, exchange offers ...

JOSEPH SAMET: Good morning and welcome back for those of you on the web and here in New York. I see a few new faces, that must mean there's Ethics this morning. So I'd like to introduce our panelists for the morning.
My Chi To is a corporate partner and member of Debevoise & Plimpton's Business Restructuring and Workout groups. She has experience representing debtors, creditors, investors, and complex restructurings, and many parties and interests ...

Taken from the Web Program IP Issues in Business Transactions 2017 New York recorded January, 2017 in New York.
Licensing and Bankruptcy Issues in IP Transactions [01:00:53]
Preserving rights following a licensor’s bankruptcy filing
Structural solutions, such as assignments and licenses back, or escrowsof source code and other materials in the context of a licensor bankruptcy
Licensor termination or prevention of assumption ...

DAVID A. BRITTENHAM: We are back with our second panel of the day on Leverage Finance and Restructuring. We are privileged to have with us two preeminent practitioners in these two areas. To my left is Angela Fontana. Angela's a corporate partner in the Dallas office of Sidley Austin, and member of the firm's Global Finance and Private Equity Groups, and co-head of the Private Equity Group. Her practice focuses on financing transactions and debt restructuring ...

Taken from the Web Program Leveraged Financing 2017 recorded May, 2017 in New York.
Leveraged Finance Restructuring [01:16:02]
Industry sectors under pressure
Default trends and characteristics
Liquidity needs and discussions with existing constituencies
Distressed debt exchange offers
DIP financings and exit financings
Case law developments and lessons
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STEVEN WEISBURD: So we're going to start up again. And we have a very interesting lecture today on bankruptcy issues in IP transactions. Something that most IP lawyers probably don't know very much about, myself included, although I did actually do a lecture on it once.
But in any event we've got two really excellent speakers today, with both corporate and bankruptcy backgrounds. And I'll introduce them very quickly.
So Jeff Osterman is a partner ...

JOSEPH SAMET: But before I do, let me introduce the other panelists who are here with me this morning. And there'll be other panelists that will join us during the course of the day who will be introduced as it comes along.
To my far left is David Pauker. David has 25 years of experience as a turnaround manager and financial advisor in a broad range of industries, has played a major role in some of the important and biggest cases in the United States. ...

The 2016 real estate market is well behind us. The previous year closed with some leveling indicators, signaling a slowdown from the dazzling growth the market witnessed in the last few years. 2017 is presenting a more tempered pace and environment, as real estate forecasters seem to indicate. U.S. real estate appears to remain a safe bet in the eyes of domestic and international investors, but new challenges and risks are abound ...

JOSEPH SAMET: Welcome back for this afternoon's sessions on Chapter 11 plan, disclosure statements, objections, the contested issues involving Chapter 11 plans. I'm delighted to have with us, to my far left, Judge Allan Gropper. Judge Gropper had been a bankruptcy judge from 2000 to 2015. He has since retired AND is still active in the field where he serves periodically as a mediator, and of course, a teacher around the world IN diverse programs.
Judge ...

From the program: Pocket MBA Fall 2016: Finance for Lawyers and Other Professionals

Recorded on: Oct. 11, 2016

Taken from the Web Program Pocket MBA Fall 2016: Finance for Lawyers and Other Professionals recorded October, 2016 in New York.
Rise or Die: Financial Distress [01:17:51]
Analyze the indicators and causes of financial distress, including solvency and liquidity
Identify the stakeholders and other possibly affected parties
Evaluate restructuring and other strategic alternatives, including when filing a bankruptcy makes sense
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